Patrick Ernest Hennen

Patrick Ernest Hennen

Company A 1/22 Infantry

KIA 05/08/70

Patrick E. Hennen and I were in the same NCOC class. In NCO school we were assigned in alphapetical order
and Patrick was just a couple of bunks from me. In Viet Nam he was with Alpha Company while I was with Delta
but we would see each other every now and then. While on stand down before going into Cambodia
I looked him up and we drank a couple of beers and talked about how short we were getting.
I told him that after we got back we would drink another beer. After we got back to An Khe from Cambodia
I went over to Alpha Company to find him but was told he was killed the second day in Cambodia.
I had hoped for years afterward that I had been given wrong information but after the Viet Nam Memorial was dedicated,
there was his name. He was a fine person and a equally good squad leader.

Harold Hall - D Company 1/22 Infantry 1969-1970

Photo of Patrick Hennen courtesy of Harold Hall

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